Psychologists have emphasized that people experience the fight-or-flight response more than the tend-and-befriend response because

A) the former has greater adaptive value.
B) the research has largely been done with males.
C) research supports the former but not the latter.
D) avoidance responses are more important to survival than are approach responses.

Fight-or-Flight Response

A physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival, activating the sympathetic nervous system.

Tend-and-Befriend Response

A behavioral response to stress, especially noted in women, which involves nurturing activities and seeking social support.

Adaptive Value

The extent to which a trait or behavior positively benefits a species by influencing the evolutionary fitness of the species, thus leading to adaptation through natural selection.